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Book of Canadian Wine

Melissa Priestley

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Description:With a history dating back to our early settlers, Canadian winemaking tradition has truly come of age. Now more than 500 wineries offer highly praised vintages such as our famous icewines and recently developed exotic varietals:- The world’s most expensive new wine was a bottle of Canadian icewine: in 2006, Royal DeMaria released five cases of their 2000 Chardonnay icewine at a whopping $30,000 per half-bottle- The first vineyard in Canada was planted by French settlers in Nova Scotia in 1633- As of 2009, British Columbia had 19 vineyards and wineries with full organic certification; Ontario and Nova Scotia had one each- Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula, Pelee Island and Lake Erie North Shore regions supply 80 percent of the Canadian-grown grapes used in Canadian wine production- When Prohibition hit Ontario in 1916, the province’s winegrowers managed to convince the government to exempt wineries; the only catch was that customers had to buy at least a five-gallon keg or a case of 12 bottles at a time- Canadian celebrities who own vineyards include Mike Weir, Wayne Gretzky and Dan Aykroyd- The taxes Canada applies to wine are the highest in the world--over twice as high as the taxes in the runner-up, New ZealandWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Book of Canadian Wine. To get started finding Book of Canadian Wine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 216

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Blue Bike Books2009

Release: —

ISBN: 1897278624

Description: With a history dating back to our early settlers, Canadian winemaking tradition has truly come of age. Now more than 500 wineries offer highly praised vintages such as our famous icewines and recently developed exotic varietals:- The world’s most expensive new wine was a bottle of Canadian icewine: in 2006, Royal DeMaria released five cases of their 2000 Chardonnay icewine at a whopping $30,000 per half-bottle- The first vineyard in Canada was planted by French settlers in Nova Scotia in 1633- As of 2009, British Columbia had 19 vineyards and wineries with full organic certification; Ontario and Nova Scotia had one each- Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula, Pelee Island and Lake Erie North Shore regions supply 80 percent of the Canadian-grown grapes used in Canadian wine production- When Prohibition hit Ontario in 1916, the province’s winegrowers managed to convince the government to exempt wineries; the only catch was that customers had to buy at least a five-gallon keg or a case of 12 bottles at a time- Canadian celebrities who own vineyards include Mike Weir, Wayne Gretzky and Dan Aykroyd- The taxes Canada applies to wine are the highest in the world--over twice as high as the taxes in the runner-up, New ZealandWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Book of Canadian Wine. To get started finding Book of Canadian Wine, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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